There are many occasions where employees can support themselves and do not need professional help. We at Employee Therapy Solutions don’t believe in profiteering in such instances. Feel free to take a look at the following.
Self Help
Looking for a local private counselling organisation: www.hopefulminds.co.uk
Information and Links to sources of self-help approved by the NHS.
Providing useful resources to help you spot the signs of common mental health concerns, offering practical self-care tips and guidance, and explains when to seek further support. There is a free NHS approved online tool on the Every Mind Matters website, which helps you build an action plan to deal with stress and anxiety, boost your mood, improve your sleep and help you feel more in control.
This online tool is a life skills course that aims to provide access to high quality, practical and user-friendly training in life skills. The course content teaches key knowledge in how to tackle and respond to issues/demands which we all meet in our everyday lives
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has been proven to help many mental health problems.
This offers a low-cost yet highly flexible and evidence-based approach towards taking back control.
This site is designed to help people think about emotional problems and work towards solving them.
Provides valuable information for sufferers and carers of people with Panic, Anxiety, Phobias and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders.
Whatever you need to know about coping with stress, anxiety or depression, or just the normal emotional ups and downs of life, the NHS Choices Moodzone is here to help. It offers practical advice, interactive tools, videos and audio guides to help you feel mentally and emotionally better.
The Self Help UK Guide is a searchable database providing contact details and background information on over 1,000 self-help and support groups, patient organisations and charities throughout the UK.
Get a concrete, accurate description of who you are and why you do things the way you do, for free.
Resources and Support
You may want extra support outside of the therapy room. Here is a list of some providers, both national and local.
• Alcoholics Anonymous
AA helps those with alcohol addiction through support and meetings.
• Beaumont Society Transgender support group
• Childline
A free helpline for children and young people in the UK, call 0800 1111 to talk about any problem.
• Cruse Bereavement Care
Help and support for those who have suffered a loss.
• Home-Start
UK’s family support charity.
• Mind
Mental health charity with local branches
• National Domestic Abuse Helpline Freephone, 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline
• Oxford Nightline Oxford Nightline is a listening, support and information service run for and by students of Oxford and Oxford Brookes universities
• Oxfordshire Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre Supporting women who have experienced rape and sexual abuse
•Oxford Safe Haven An out-of-hours, non-clinical space offering crisis support, signposting, listening support.
• Samaritans
A charity available 24 hours a day offering a confidential listening service to anyone in distress.
• Switchboard LGBT+ Helpline
• Victim Support
A national charity that helps anyone who has been affected by crime.
Therapy Professional Bodies
- British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
The BABCP is a multi-disciplinary interest group for people involved in the practice and theory of behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy. - British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
The BACP is the leading accrediting body for UK counsellors and psychotherapists. - British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)
The BPC is an association of institutions, made up of psychoanalysts, analytical psychologists, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and child psychotherapists. - The National Counselling Society (NCS)
This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. - United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
The UKCP is a comprehensive register of UK Psychotherapists. - United Kingdom Association for Humanistic Psychology Practitioners (UKAHPP)
The UKAHPP is a national accrediting organisation for all those who apply the theories of Humanistic Psychology in their work.